The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine - Su Wen - Yu Ji Zhen Zang Lun (玉機真藏論) original text:

The Yellow Emperor asked: Spring pulse is like a string, what is it like and string?

Qi Bo said: spring pulse, the liver is also, the eastern wood is also, the reason why everything is born, so its gas to soft, light and weak and slippery, the end of the straight to long, so it is called string, the opposite of the disease.

The emperor said: how to counter?

Qi Bo said: its gas to solid and strong, this is too much, the disease outside. Its gas is not solid and weak, this is not as good as, the disease in the center.

The emperor said: spring pulse is too much and not enough, its disease are how?

Qi Bo said: too much is forgetful, suddenly dizzy and peak disease; not as good as, it is painful to draw back, down to the two prying full.

The emperor said: good. Summer pulse such as hooks, how and hooks?

Qi Bo said: summer pulse of the heart, the southern fire, the reason why everything is full of growth, so its gas to go down, so it is said to hook, against this disease.

The emperor said: how to counter?

Qi Bo said: its gas to go to the full also full, this is too much, the disease outside, its gas to not go to the full anti-sheng, this is not as good as, the disease in the middle.

The emperor said: summer pulse is too much and not enough, its disease are how?

Qi Bo said: too much is a person's body heat and pain in the skin, for the immersion; not as good as it is a person's heart, the upper see coughing and spitting, the lower for the gas leakage.

The emperor said: good. Autumn pulse such as floating, how and floating?

Qi Bo said: Autumn pulse, lungs, western gold, the reason why everything is harvested. Therefore, its gas to light to float, to rush to go scattered, so it is said to float, against this disease.

The emperor said: how to counter?

Qi Bo said: its gas to the hair and the center of the firm, the two sides of the virtual, this is too much, the disease in the outside; its gas to the hair and the micro, this is not as good as, the disease in the middle.

The emperor said: Autumn pulse is too much and not enough, its disease are how?

Qi Bo said: too much is a person against the gas and back pain. If it is not too much, it will make people gasp, breathe less and cough, see blood in the upper air, and hear the sound of disease in the lower air.

The emperor said: good. Winter pulse such as camp, how and camp?

Qibo said: winter pulse, kidney. Northern water, the reason why everything is contained. Therefore, its gas to sink to fight, so it is called camp, against this disease.

The emperor said: how to counter?

Qi Bo said: its gas comes like a stone, this is too much, the disease in the outside; its go like a number of people, this is less than, the disease in the center.

The emperor said: winter pulse is too much and not enough, its disease are how?

Qi Bo said: too much is people to solve performance, spine pulse pain and less gas do not want to say; not as good as the people's heart hanging, such as disease hunger, blindness in the clear, spine in the pain, the abdomen is full, urination change.

The emperor said: good.

The emperor said: the order of the four seasons, the reverse from the variation, but the spleen pulse alone what master.

Qi Bo said: the spleen pulse is also the earth, a solitary organ, in order to irrigate the four sides of the person also.

The emperor said: However, the spleen good or bad can be seen?

Qi Bo said: the good can not be seen, the evil can be seen.

The emperor said: How can the evil be seen?

Qi Bo said: it comes like the flow of water, this is too much, the disease outside. If it is like the beak of a bird, it is not as good as it should be, and the disease is in the center.

The emperor said: husband said the spleen as a solitary organ, the center to irrigate the four sides, its too much and not enough, the disease are how?

Qi Bo said: too much is not lifting the four branches of the people, its less than the people of the nine orifices, the name is heavy strong.

The emperor rose up, bowed again and bowed his head and said: good. I got the pulse of the main points, the world to the number, the five-color pulse changes, the premise of Qiheng, the Road lies in one, the God turn not back, back to the turn, is lost, to the number of points, close to the micro, with the jade plate, hidden viscera, read every day, called the jade machine.

The five viscera are subject to the gas in its birth, the transmission of its victory, the gas shed in its birth, the death of its unsuccessful. If you are sick and dying, you will have to pass the line first, to the point where you do not win, and then you will die. This means that the gas is going against the grain, so it will die.

The liver receives qi from the heart and passes it on to the spleen, and the qi is shed in the kidneys to the lungs, where it dies. The Spleen receives Qi from the Lungs and transmits it to the Kidneys, where it is given up to the Heart and dies in the Liver. The Lungs receive Qi from the Kidneys, which is transmitted to the Liver, and the Qi is given up to the Spleen and dies in the Heart. The kidneys receive qi from the liver, which is transmitted to the heart, and the qi is given up to the lungs, to the spleen and death. These are all against the death of the day and night, five points, this is why the early and late account of life and death also.

Huang Di said: the five viscera are connected, move all have times. Five viscera have disease, then each pass its victory, not cure. Law in March, if June, if three days, if six days. Passing five organs and when the death, is to pass their winning times.

Therefore, it is said: not in the yang, know the disease from; not in the yin, know the period of life and death. The word is to know to its trapped and die.

Therefore, the wind is the longest of all diseases.

Today, wind and cold are in people, making the hair straight and the skin closed to heat. When this is the time, can be sweated and hair also. Sheng paralysis is not benevolent swelling disease, when it is, can be soup iron and fire moxibustion prick and go. Fever, the disease into the lungs, the name is lung paralysis, hair cough on the gas Fever, the lung is transmitted to the liver, the disease is called liver paralysis, a name is called syncope, dystocia out of food. When this is the time, can be pressed if the prick ears. If the liver is transmitted to the spleen, the disease is called spleen wind, paralysis, heat in the abdomen, annoyance, yellow. At this time, it can be pressed, medicated or bathed. When the disease is transmitted from the spleen to the kidney, the name of the disease is hernia, with heat and pain in the abdomen, and white color coming out, and the name of the disease is compulsion. At this time, it can be pressed and medicated. If the kidney is transmitted to the heart, the disease is called hydrophobia, and the tendons and veins are attracted to each other in a hurry. When this time, can be moxibustion, medicine. Fuzzy, full ten days, the law should die. Kidneys because of the heart, the heart that is the reverse transmission of the lungs, fever and cold, the law when three years old to die, the second of this disease.

But it is not necessary to treat the death of a person, or its transmission is not in order, not in order to the second into the person, worry, fear, sadness, happiness and anger, so that not in order to the second, so people have a big disease.

Therefore, hi, the great emptiness of the kidneys multiply, the anger of the liver multiply, sadness of the lungs multiply, fear of the spleen multiply, sadness of the heart multiply, this way also. Therefore, there are five diseases, five five twenty-five changes and their transmission. The first thing you need to do is to get a good deal of money to pay for the services you need.

The big bones are withered, the big flesh is sunken, the chest is full of gas, gasping inconvenience, the gas is moving form, the period of June death, the true organ pulse see, is given to the period of day.

The bones are withered, the flesh is sunken, the chest is full of gas, it is inconvenient to gasp, and the internal pain leads to the shoulders and neck, and it is expected that the person will die in January. The true organs will be seen, and the date of death will be the date of the giving.

The bones are withered, the flesh is sunken, the chest is full of gas, gasping is inconvenient, internal pain leads to the shoulders and neck, the body is hot, the flesh is off and the rouge is broken. The true organs are seen, and death occurs within the month of October.

The bones are withered, the flesh is sunken, the shoulder marrow is fading, and the movement is weakening. When the true organs come to see him, he will die within a year, and when he sees his true organs, it will be the day of his death.

The bones are withered, the flesh is sunken, the chest is full of gas, the abdomen is painful, the heart is inconvenient, the shoulders are hot, the rouge is off the flesh, and the eyes are sunken. The real organs see, the eye does not see people, immediately die; its see people, to the time it does not win will die.

When the body is in a state of acute deficiency, the five organs are closed, the pulse is blocked, and there is no exchange of gas, such as the fall of a drowning, which is not possible for a certain period of time. The pulse will never come, and if a person has five or six breaths, and his form and flesh do not come off, even though his true organs are not, he will die.

The true liver pulse, in and out of the urgent, such as following the blade of a knife, the blame of the strings of the zither, the color of the green and white, hair folded, is dead. The True Lung pulse is firm and pulsating, as if it were following the seeds of Coix lacryma; it is tired, its color is red and black, and its hair is broken; it dies. The true Lung pulse is large and weak, like the skin of a man in a feather of hair; its color is white and red but not lustrous; its hair is broken and it dies. The true kidney pulse arrives, pulsating and cut off, like a finger flicking a stone, piquant, black and yellow in color, hairs folded, and then dead; the true spleen pulse arrives, weak and at first few and then sparse, yellow and green in color, hairs folded, and then dead. All the real organs pulse to see, are dead and not treated.

Huang Di: see the real dirty said dead, why?

Qi Bo said: the five viscera, are endowed with gas in the stomach, the stomach of the five viscera of the original; dirty gas, can not be self-targeted in the hands of the Taiyin, must be due to the stomach gas, and even the hands of the Taiyin also. Therefore, each of the five organs, at its own time, is self-caused and reaches the hand Taiyin. Therefore, if the evil qi wins, the essence fails. Therefore, if the disease is very serious, the stomach gas can not be with them all to the hand Taiyin, so the true organs of the gas alone, alone, the disease over the viscera, so that the death.

The emperor said: good.

Huang Di said: Where the treatment of disease detection of its shape and color, pulse of the fullness of the disease, the new and old, is the treatment of its time.

Shape gas phase get, said the curable, color to float, said easy; pulse from the four times, said curable; pulse weak to slippery, is the stomach gas, said easy to cure, take the time; shape gas phase loss, said difficult to cure; color abortion is not zephyr, said difficult to be; pulse solid to firm, said more; pulse inverse to the four times, for the incurable, we must look at the four difficulties, and the Ming told the.

The so-called against the four seasons, spring get lung pulse, summer get kidney pulse, autumn get heart pulse, winter get spleen pulse; its to all hanging out of the sinking astringent, life is said to be against the four seasons.

No dirty form, in spring and summer and pulse sinking, fall and winter and pulse floating, said against the four seasons.

The heat of the disease, the pulse is quiet; leakage and the pulse is large; blood and the pulse is solid; the disease is in the middle, the pulse is solid and firm, the disease is outside, the pulse is not solid and firm; all difficult to treat.

Huang Di said: I heard that the virtual reality to determine the life and death, would like to hear their feelings?

Qi Bo said: five real death, five virtual death.

The emperor said: I would like to hear five real and five virtual?

Qibo said: pulse, skin heat, abdominal distension, before and after the inability to pass, boring, this is called the five real. The pulse is thin, skin cold, less gas, before and after the leakage, food and drink do not enter, this is called the five virtual.

The emperor said: its time to be born what?

Qi Bo said: pulp porridge into the stomach, leakage injection stop, then the virtual live; body sweat after profits, then the real live. This is also the weather.

Vernacular translation:

Huang Di asked: a person's pulse in the spring is like strings, how can it be considered a string pulse?

Qi Bo replied: A person's pulse in the spring corresponds to the liver, the five positions of which are in the east, and the five elements of which are wood, and it coincides with the time when everything begins to grow and develop. Therefore, when the pulse comes in the spring, it is soft, light, and slippery, straight and long, so it is called string. If it does not match the seasonal pulse, it is a sign of liver disease.

Huang Di asked: What is the situation of not conforming to the spring pulse?

Qi Bo replied: When the patient's pulse comes, if it is firm and strong, it is a pulse that is too strong, indicating that the disease is outside. If the pulse is not solid and weak, it is a pulse that is not as strong as the disease, indicating that the disease is within.

Huang Di also asked: Spring pulse is too much and not enough, what are the symptoms of disease?

Qi Bo replied: if the spring pulse is too excessive, it will make people forgetful, confused, dizzy, and even produce the top of the top of the disease. If the spring pulse is not enough, it will cause pain in one's chest involving the back, and downwards it will cause distension in the areas on both sides of the ribs and hypochondrium.

Huang Di said: I see! Then, how is it that a person's pulse is like a hook in summer?

Qi Bo replied: the pulse in summer corresponds to the heart, the five positions of the south, the five elements of fire, when everything grows and flourishes. Therefore, the pulse in summer is strong and weak, like a hook, so it is called the hook pulse. If it does not match the summer pulse, it is a sign of heart disease.

Huang Di asked: What is the situation of not conforming to the summer pulse?

Qi Bo replied: If the patient's pulse is strong when it comes in and strong when it goes out, this is a pulse that is too strong, indicating that the disease is outside. If the pulse is not strong when it comes and is strong when it goes, this is a pulse that is not as strong as the patient's, indicating that the disease is within.

Huang Di asked: summer pulse is too much and not enough, what are the symptoms of disease?

Qi Bo replied: If the summer pulse is too excessive, it will cause one's body to be hot, the skin to ache, and the heat evil to cause sores. If the summer pulse is not as strong as it should be, it will make one irritable, the upper part of the body will cough and spit, and the lower part of the body will suffer from loss of qi and diarrhea.

The Yellow Emperor said: I see! Then, the pulse in the fall is like floating, what kind of situation is this?

Qi Bo replied: In the fall, the pulse corresponds to the lungs, the five positions are in the west, and the five elements are of gold, when everything is converging and ripening. Therefore, the pulse in the fall is light and shallow, and when it comes, it is rapid, so it is called floating pulse. If the pulse is not in line with the autumn pulse, it is a sign of lung disease.

Huang Di asked: What is the situation of not conforming to the autumn pulse?

Qi Bo replied: When the patient's pulse is like light hair and the center is firm and the sides are weak, this is a pulse that is too strong, indicating that the disease is outside. The patient's pulse is like light hair and weak in the center, indicating that the disease is within.

Huang Di asked: Autumn pulse is too much and too little, what are the symptoms of disease?

Qi Bo replied: If the pulse in autumn is too excessive, it will cause people's qi to be rebellious, resulting in back pain and a sullen mood. If the Autumn pulse is not as strong as the Autumn pulse, it will make one's breathing short, and when one coughs, there will be a reversal of qi with blood, and the disease sound of wheezing can be heard in the throat below.

The Yellow Emperor said: I see! Then, what is the situation in winter when the pulse is like camp?

Qi Bo replied: the human pulse in winter corresponds to the kidneys, the five positions are in the north, the five elements are water, when everything returns to storage. Therefore, the winter pulse is called the Ying pulse because it comes in deep and heavy. If it does not correspond to the winter pulse, it is a sign of kidney disease.

Huang Di asked: What is the situation of not conforming to the winter pulse?

Qi Bo replied: If the patient's pulse is as hard as a bouncing stone when it comes in, this is a pulse that is too strong, indicating that the disease is outside. If the pulse moves frequently when it goes, this is a pulse that is not as strong as the disease, indicating that the disease is within.

Huang Di asked: winter pulse is too much and not enough, what are the symptoms of disease?

Qi Bo replied: If the winter pulse is too excessive, it will make one's spirit depressed, body slack, spinal pain, chest tightness and shortness of breath, and one will be speechless. If the winter pulse is not too much, it will make one's heart as empty as hanging, just like feeling hungry in the abdomen, leading to such diseases as clear coldness in the empty and soft parts under the quarter, pain in the spine, distension and fullness in the lesser abdomen, and urination from time to time.

The Yellow Emperor said: I understand!

Huang Di went on to say: people in the spring, summer, fall and winter pulse, there are different changes from the reverse. Then, the spleen pulse is actually the main when the order?

Qi Bo replied: spleen pulse five elements of the earth, five parties and five positions in the middle, is located in the center of the solitary organ, but can irrigate and nourish the four sides around the east, north and south.

Huangdi asked: spleen pulse normal or abnormal signs?

Qi Bo replied: There are no signs when the spleen pulse is normal, but there are signs when it is abnormal.

Huang Di asked: What are the signs when the spleen pulse is abnormal?

Qi Bo replied: When the patient's pulse is flowing like water, this is too much, indicating that the disease is outside. If it comes in as sharp as a bird's beak, it is not as sharp as a bird's beak, indicating that the disease is within.

Huangdi asked: Mr. said that the spleen is a solitary organ, located in the middle of the earth to irrigate and nourish the four sides. Then, the spleen pulse is too much and not too much of the disease, and what is the situation?

Qi Bo replied: If the spleen pulse is too excessive, it will make people unable to move their limbs. If the Spleen Vein is not enough, it will make one's nine orifices impassable, which is known as the Heavy and Strong Disease.

Hearing this, Huang Di stood up solemnly, bowed to Qibo and bowed again, saying: I understand! I finally understand the basic rigidity of pulse changes, which is the most important numerology in the world. The Five Colors, Pulse Changes, Premiums, and Qi Heng are all ancient classics, and the Great Way is the unity of heaven and man, and the irreversible circulation of spirit, blood, and yin and yang. If the qi is reversed, the circulation will not be able to get through, and it will lead to the loss of vitality of the human system. Ancient people to these most important mathematical just to, through repeated clinical practice and subtle observation summarized, and then burned to the jade plate, treasured memorized in the chest and abdomen, and to recite once a day in the morning, known as the "Jade Machine".

The essence produced by the five organs of the human body is transmitted in the order of the five elements. Essence qi will be retained in the organs where the five elements are born and perish in the organs where they are not. When a patient is critically ill and on the verge of death, the vital essence of the five organs must first be transmitted to the organs that it does not control, and then the patient will die. This is the retrograde movement of essence in the body, which will inevitably lead to death.

For example, wood begets fire, wood begets earth, water begets wood, and gold begets wood. The liver receives the essence transmitted by the heart, then transmits it to the spleen, then stagnates in the kidneys, and finally transmits it to perish in the lungs.

Fire begets earth, fire begets gold, wood begets fire, and water begets fire. The heart receives the essence transmitted by the spleen, then transmits it to the lungs, then stagnates in the liver, and finally transmits it to perish in the kidneys.

Earth begets gold, earth begets water, fire begets earth, and wood begets earth. The spleen receives the essence transmitted by the lungs, then transmits it to the kidneys, then stagnates in the heart, and finally transmits it to perish in the liver.

Gold begets water, gold begets wood, earth begets gold, and fire begets gold. The lungs receive the essence transmitted by the kidneys, then transmit it to the liver, then stagnate in the spleen, and finally transmit it to perish in the heart.

Water begets wood, water begets fire, gold begets water, earth begets water. The kidneys receive the essence transmitted by the liver, then transmit it to the heart, then stagnate in the lungs, and finally transmit it to perish in the spleen.

These circumstances of the transmission of essence from the five organs show that when the five elements are in opposition to each other, the essence will inevitably perish.

By dividing the day and night into five stages, corresponding to the pulse of each of the five organs of the human body, it is possible to estimate the early and late time of the patient's death.

Huang Di went on to say: the five organs of the human body are connected to the meridians, the transmission of essence has a certain order. When a disease occurs in each of the five organs, if the evil qi is transmitted to the organ it is attached to, it will become incurable. After three months, or six months, or three days, or six days, the patient will die when the evil qi is transmitted to all five organs. In this case, the evil qi is transmitted in the order of the five elements. Ancient sages said, "If you can identify the three Yang meridians, you will know where the evil qi comes from. Being able to identify the three yin meridians, one can know the period of life and death of the patient, and one can tell the process of death in which the evil qi transmits to what it does not."

Thus, wind is the first of the five movements and six qi obscene evils, which is the source of all diseases.

If the evil of cold wind invades the human body, it will make one's hairs stand straight up, the pores of the skin are tightly closed, and the body begins to heat up. At this time, sweating therapy can be used. When the cold wind evil invades the meridians, it will produce obvious symptoms of paralysis, swelling and pain. At this time, soup ironing hot compresses, moxa fire moxibustion treatment and acupuncture and other therapies can be used to dispel the cold evil. If not promptly adjusted, the pathogenic evil will be transmitted and retained in the lungs, forming the lung paralysis disease. When coughing and gas reversal is not regulated, the disease will be transmitted from the lungs to the liver, forming liver paralysis, also known as liver syncope, as well as dystocia and dietary vomiting symptoms. At this point, massage massage and acupuncture therapy can be used to regulate.

If the treatment is not carried out in time, the evil qi of the lesion will be transmitted from the liver to the spleen, forming the syndrome of spleen wind, which will cause paralysis, heat in the abdomen, heartburn, yellow urine and other symptoms. At this time, massage, medicines, hot soup baths and other therapies can be used to regulate. If the disease is not regulated in time, the evil qi will be transmitted from the spleen to the kidneys, forming the hernia and jaundice disease, which will cause symptoms such as stuffy and hot pain in the abdomen and turbid and white urine, also known as cup disease. At this time, massage and medication can be used to regulate. If the disease is not treated in time, the evil will be transmitted from the kidneys to the heart, resulting in symptoms of contracture of the tendons and veins and the formation of hydrophobia. At this point, moxibustion and medicines can be used for treatment. If the patient is no longer treated in time, he will die in ten days.

If the pathogenic evil is transmitted from the kidneys to the heart, and then back-transmitted from the heart to the lungs, triggering the symptoms of mixed cold and heat, the patient will die after three years, which is the regular order of transmission of pathogenic evil.

There is no need to follow the usual order of transmission of disease in the treatment of patients with sudden and acute illnesses. There are some diseases that do not follow the regular order of transmission, such as anxiety, fear, sadness, joy, anger and other emotional disorders, all of which do not follow the regular order of transmission, and this will lead to serious and complicated illnesses.

Therefore, the water grams the fire, the joy is very sad, the heart essence is weak, the kidney lesion evil will take advantage of the weakness. Jin Ke wood, anger is hurt liver, liver essence is weak, lung lesions evil will take advantage of the weakness. Fire attacks gold, sadness injures the lungs, and when the essence of the lungs is weakened, the evil qi of heart disease will take advantage of the weakness to enter the body. Fear will injure the kidneys. When the essence of the kidneys is weakened, the evil qi of spleen diseases will take advantage of the weakness. Wood and earth, sadness injures the spleen, and when the essence of the spleen is weakened, the evil qi of liver disease will take advantage of the weakness. Starting from joy and sadness, this is the order of transmission of emotional and emotional disorders. Therefore, there are five types of emotional and emotional illnesses, but five and a half and twenty-five variations of transmission transformation occur. The so-called transmission transformation is the probabilistic designation of the five-five multiplication.

If symptoms such as dryness and brittleness of large bones, emaciation and subsidence of large flesh, depression and distension of Qi in the chest, difficulty in breathing, incessant wheezing, and trembling of the body while breathing are present, the patient's time limit for death is only six months. When the pulse of the true organs has appeared, the period of death can be determined.

If there are symptoms such as dryness and brittleness of the bones, emaciation and subsidence of the flesh, fullness of Qi in the chest, difficulty in breathing, gasping for breath, pain in the heart and chest, and pain in the shoulders and neck, then the patient's time of death is only one month. When the pulse of the true organs has appeared, the date of death can be determined.

If there are symptoms such as dryness and brittleness of the bones, thinning and sinking of the flesh, fullness of Qi in the chest, dyspnea, gasping for breath, pain in the heart and chest, pain in the shoulders and neck, fever of the whole body, and loss of flesh and breaking of the roulette, etc., then the pulse of the true viscera has appeared, and the patient's time of death is only ten months.

If there are symptoms such as dryness and brittleness of the bones, emaciation and sinking of the flesh, sagging of the shoulders, loss of bone marrow, and weakening of the movements, the pulse of the true viscera has appeared, and the patient's time of death is only one year. When the pulse of the true viscera has appeared, the period of death can be determined.

If there are symptoms such as dryness and brittleness of the bones, emaciation and subsidence of the flesh, swelling and fullness of the chest, weakness of the bones, thinness of the flesh, fullness of the chest, pain in the abdomen, depression and discomfort in the heart, heat in the shoulders and the whole body, breaking of the rouge and shedding of the flesh, and subsidence of the eye sockets, then the pulse of the true organ has appeared, and the eyes are already unable to recognize the person, so that the patient will die at once. If one can still recognize people, one's essence is not yet dead. By the time the essence has spread to the organs it does not recognize, the patient will die.

If the positive qi is weak, the external evil suddenly invaded the body, resulting in the five organs of the qi blockage, the body of the veins and channels can not be, the qi does not come and go, like from a high place to fall into the water flooding drowning, it is not far from the death of the date. If the pulse is absolute but not to, or beating abnormally fast number, a call pulse to five or six to, even if the form of flesh is not off, the real organs have not yet appeared, the patient will still die.

If the patient's essence is rapidly weakened, the external evil suddenly invades the body, the five organs are completely blocked, the whole body meridians are blocked and impassable, the blood can not be circulated to and fro, just like falling from a height or drowning, it is impossible to predict the date of death. If the meridians and chi are not coming, or a breath in and out of the pulse five times six times, although its form of flesh is not off, the real organs and pulse not yet appeared, but also are not salvageable death.

When the true pulse of the liver appears, the internal and external strength is sharp, like pressing on the blade of a knife, or pressing on the strings of a zither, the face is greenish-white, and the hair is scorched, so the patient will die immediately. When the True Vessel of the Heart appears, the pulse is firm and pulsating, like pressing a coix seed or caressing a jade pearl, with a reddish-black color and no light, and withered hair, the patient dies immediately. When the True Vessel of the Lungs appears, the pulsations are large and hollow, as gentle as a feather on the skin, the color is white and red, and the hair is withered and scorched, and the patient will die. When the True Vessel of the Kidneys appears, the pulsations are like clues that want to be broken, and are as firm as if one were to play a stone with one's fingers, and the patient's color is black and yellow, and the hair is withered and scorched. When the true pulse of the spleen appears, the pulsation is weak and feeble, the speed is uneven, the color is yellow and green, and the hair is withered and scorched, and the patient will die.

Wherever the above true organ pulse appears, it is an incurable death.

Huang Di then asked: the patient will die if he has a true organ pulse, why is that?

Qi Bo replied: The essence of the five organs of the human body comes from the essence of the grains and cereals eaten by the spleen and stomach. Therefore, the five organs are based on the spleen and stomach. The essence of the five organs cannot reach the taiyin meridian of the hand by itself, but must be transported to the taiyin meridian of the hand through the essence of the spleen and stomach. The essence of each of the five organs reaches the hand Taiyin meridian on its own with its main time.